Clarksdale, MO
Clarksdale, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Clarksdale at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 217 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Clarksdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 59th percentile nationally.
Where Clarksdale's buildings actually sit
Clarksdale rates 55.3% Minimal exposure against just 44.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 217 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Clarksdale compares
Clarksdale's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (50th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (58th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarksdale ranks 13,178 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,234 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 526 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Clarksdale and the insurance market
Clarksdale's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 55.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Clarksdale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 217 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clarksdale. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarksdale, see the exposure-zones guide.